Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 19


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Micro-Transfer Printing on Silicon Photonics: Tutorial, Recent Progress and Outlook 🔗 Ghent U., imec Challenges and prospects of 2D electronics for future monolithic CFETs 🔗 SKKU, Hanyang U. et al. A Device-Physics-Informed Artific... » read more

Micro-Transfer Printing (MTP) As A Promising Scalable Approach to Heterogeneous Integration for Silicon Photonics (Ghent U., imec et al)


A new technical paper, "Micro-Transfer Printing on Silicon Photonics: Tutorial, Recent Progress and Outlook," was published by researchers at Ghent University, imec et al. Abstract "This paper highlights micro-transfer printing (MTP) as a promising scalable approach to heterogeneous integration for silicon photonics. MTP uniquely achieves high integration density, high throughput, and hig... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Arm uncorked its first internally developed CPU chip this week, aimed squarely at the agentic AI data center market. Arm CEO Rene Haas (pictured) emphasized the CPU's power efficiency and performance/watt compared to other AI processor architectures. "We are obsessed with efficiency, and if you think about one of the biggest appeals that Arm has had over the years, it is power profile," he ... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


San Francisco-based Substrate raised more than $100 million to build a vertically integrated foundry that uses particle accelerators to produce "the world's brightest beams, enabling a new method of advanced X-ray lithography." The company claims its technology is comparable to ASML's high NA EUV, and notes it can extend well beyond 2nm. ASML has not publicly commented. The Nexperia chip sho... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: August 11


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=463 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Epitaxial Growth Of Up To 120 Si/SiGe Bilayers In View of 3D DRAM Applications (imec, Ghent Univ.)


A new technical paper titled "Epitaxial growth of up to 120× {Si0.8Ge0.2/Si} bilayers in view of three dimensional dynamic random access memory applications" was published by researchers at imec and Ghent University. Abstract "Epitaxially grown Si/Si1−xGex multi-stacks with ≥100 bilayers (≥200 sublayers) are being considered for three dimensionally vertically stacked dynamic rando... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: July 22


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=456 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here.   » read more

Volatile And Non-Volatile NEM Switches Fabricated In A CMOS-Compatible SOI Foundry Platform (KTH, U. of Bristol, EPFL, Imec)


A new technical paper titled "Volatile and non-volatile nano-electromechanical switches fabricated in a CMOS-compatible silicon-on-insulator foundry process" was published by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Bristol, EPFL, imec, and Ghent University. Abstract "Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches have the advantages of zero leakage current, abrupt switching ch... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: June 9


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=438 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Qualcomm announced plans to buy Alphawave Semi for ~$2.4 billion in a deal expected to close in Q1 2026. Qualcomm plans to leverage Alphawave Semi's connectivity products, including chiplets, to develop high-performance, low-power solutions for AI inferencing and customized CPUs in data centers. Qualcomm's traditional targets were mobile phones and edge computing. [Updated 6/9.] Global semic... » read more

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